Professional Development Program 2009

Writing and Speaking

Brief and cabinet submissions writing
Geoffrey Leach & Laurie Wilson
9am – 4pm Tuesday 22 & Wednesday 23 September - $895 ND
Written communications must be clear, concise, cogent and based on sound logic if they are to engage and convince the reader. This course will cover the writing of brief and cabinet submissions.
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Correspondence and report writing
Bob Bolitho
9am-4pm Tuesday 8 & Wednesday 9 September - $895ND
9am-4pm Wednesday 18 & Thursday 19 November - $895 ND
Improve your written communication skills in the workplace by learning proven writing techniques that will help you become a valuable employee who can write clear, concise, persuasive emails, correspondence, reports, briefs, submissions and other documents. Through discussing sample documents and engaging in group writing and revising activities, judge for yourself whether documents succeed or fail.
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Editing and proofreading for the workplace
Bob Bolitho
9am-4pm Thursday 13 & Friday 14 August - $895 ND
9am-4pm Thursday 12 & Friday 13 November - $895 ND
All written communication can benefit from the services of an editor and a proofreader. This course looks at the skills and tools editors and proofreaders bring to their roles. It offers practical examples of the things editors and proofreaders look for in documents. It also shows how they use house style, style sheets, and proofreading marks and symbols.
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Essential grammar for writers and editors
Bob Bolitho
9am-4pm Wednesday 5 & Thursday 6 August - $895 ND
9am-4pm Monday 26 & Tuesday 27 October - $895 ND
This course takes you beyond the “sounds good” school of writing and editing to an understanding of the essential organising principles of language. Get to know your language better not by memorising archaic “rules” but by studying examples of how language elements function to produce coherent, meaningful writing.
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Plain English for business and government
Bob Bolitho
9am – 4pm Friday 6 November - $550 ND
Both private and public sector employers require their personnel to write in a reader-friendly way that communicates a clear message, produces results and saves time, effort and money. This course presents plain English methods and it explains how business and government writers can integrate them into language that is clear without being condescending, friendly without being substandard. The course is in accord with best business practice and Commonwealth style.
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Writing a manual: the basics
Gillian Polack
9am – 5pm Thursday 6 & Friday 7 August - $895 ND
This course takes you through the steps needed to produce a good manual, from determining its target audience and the type of writing style, through organising the material, presenting it (writing and how to use graphics), to options for its final presentation.
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Writing clearly in good English
Bob Bolitho
9am – 4pm Tuesday 20 & Wednesday 21 October - $895 ND
Purists may moralise about endless English usage errors. Most readers are more forgiving but do care when persistent usage issues cause them to struggle with a writer’s logic and clarity. Clarity suffers when, as writers, we use wrong words, questionable grammar, random punctuation and illogical links between ideas. This course helps writers to understand what today’s readers expect of workplace writing and to express themselves clearly in good English.
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